Wroxham Auxiliary Unit Patrol

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Thank you for selecting information on the Wroxham Auxiliary Unit
Patrol and their Operational Base in Norfolk. The info and images below have been supplied by Aux researchers
Evelyn Simak and Adrian Pye.

The patrol formed part of Norfolk Group 5. The other patrols in this group
were

Wroxham patrol’s OB was (perhaps still is) located in Bear’s Grove, a
private woodland to the south-west of Wroxham, adjoining the railway line.

It may be especially well hidden but more likely it was destroyed after stand-down. The gamekeeper (personal
interview) has never found an underground structure or anything else that might have been an OB during all the
years he has been employed by Mr Trafford, the woodland’s owner.

What we did find is a concrete base of a former structure, origin and purpose unknown. It measures approximately
4.30 (L) x 1.50(W) metres and could have served as a footing for a light building. Only a quarter of the floor has
been concreted over. The footing is about 10 centimetres wide and goes 15 centimetres deep into the ground. Set
into the concrete all around the rim, as well as into the solid concreted area, are 5/8 of an inch bolts, spaced at
regular intervals. These bolts are quite corroded so this is not a new structure. It is located about 10 metres
beside a forest track that, according to historic maps, would have been a small public road or a lane/track in the
1940s.

Observation Post/s: Currently unknown

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The site is recorded on DOB as an Auxiliary Unit operational base – “with hatch controlled by pulling branch
connected by wire mechanism. Corrugated iron roof. Brick-built store for explosives, with concrete roof and steel
doors. Recorder was unable to locate site [Information to recorder from Mr T Colquitt, former member of Norfolk
Scout Patrol.” (William Ward, Field visit 1999/7)